shekala 58 Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Just bought a Surface Pro and am excited to start taking ink notes in Evernote. Few questions: 1) Is there a quick way to start an ink note and/or to change a regular note to an ink note? The only way I found so far is File/New Note,/Ink Note - seems cumbersome, especially if in the field and adding multiple notes 2) Are ink notes searchable 3) Are ink notes convertible into text? Thanks! Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,133 Posted February 3, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi. Hope this helps... How to create ink notes in Evernote for Windows Link to comment
shekala 58 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Thanks but it doesn't make any reference to my second or third question. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,133 Posted February 3, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hmmn. I don't have any answers for you, but hopefully someone else uses the same set-up and will be able to comment. Link to comment
shekala 58 Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Fair enough, thanks. I did discover that an icon for Ink Notes can be added to the toolbar, so that is quite helpful. Link to comment
spallonev 0 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 May I ask how you added that ink notes icon to your toolbar? I can't seem to locate it. Thanks! Link to comment
dcon 166 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 2:23 PM, spallonev said: May I ask how you added that ink notes icon to your toolbar? I can't seem to locate it. Thanks! Right click on the toolbar, Customize. You can drag/drop icons off the bar and put them on. Link to comment
dcon 166 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 To the OP, as far as I know (and I doubt it's changed in the almost-1-year since I left), Ink notes cannot be converted to text (there is no text in them - only ink strokes), nor can a text note be converted to Ink. I have no idea whether they get OCRd (I don't think so since they're not images) Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 4,008 Posted May 29, 2020 Level 5 Share Posted May 29, 2020 On 4/25/2020 at 10:42 AM, dcon said: To the OP, as far as I know (and I doubt it's changed in the almost-1-year since I left), Ink notes cannot be converted to text (there is no text in them - only ink strokes), nor can a text note be converted to Ink. I have no idea whether they get OCRd (I don't think so since they're not images) I've found that they do in fact get OCRed, so they can be searched. Some caveats, though: This may only apply to newly created notes. A test note I created 7 years ago did not seem to be indexed; one I created this morning did. It may not be instantaneous. This morning's note did not seem to be searchable until some time had passed. I edited it just now, and it was searchable after a few minutes had passed. All-word searches succeed; exact word sequence searches do not. By this I mean that searching for be found will find notes with all those words in them, including ink notes; but searching for "be found" will find notes with that exact sequence of words in them, except for ink notes. Evidently the indexing of text in ink notes does not index this. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,917 Posted May 30, 2020 Level 5 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Hello Surface-Owners, just for the discussion: On my iPad Pro I use GoodNotes 5 for handwritten stuff. All handwriting gets OCRed, with amazing accuracy, is fully searchable in the app and goes with the image of the handwriting into a pdf when exported. When I import this pdf into EN, it is still fully searchable there. Other handwriting programs for the iPad offer the same features. For Goodnotes there is even a Mac client, mostly to have the stuff created on the iPad on the Mac. It syncs via iCloud. 1 Link to comment
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